Las Vegas guide and MSE thread 2013

Turtle

Thanks everybody that has commented and made suggestions, I will look them all up. I think one of the problems is because we've never been before we don't really know what it's like, only what we see on the net / Trip Advisor etc. It's good to get some tips from people who've actually been.

Turtle

downhillfast wrote: »

I'm going to Vegas for the first time in August and both me and my partner are veggie... can you suggest any places to eat that cater well for veggies???

:beer:

Just looking up the Wynn hotel and they have a vegan restaurant

pebblesmax

Wizbit82 wrote: »

It's horrible today - my mother-in-law has taken her Dad for a week (he's 85) as he wants to see where we got married 2 years ago (he couldn't come to the wedding as was nursing his wife who we lost a week after we got back).

He's always wanted to see the Grand Canyon so they flew out this morning from Henderson, got there and couldn't land so have been turned back :-(

That's a shame. I hope they have a good time despite the weather.

dodger1

ferf1223 wrote: »

They introduced a resort fee for bookings from 1st March - I don't know if you will have any recourse if the 3rd party said otherwise.

I'm staying from 18th March (Flamingo) but booked prior to 1st March, does that mean I won't have to pay the resort fee? Thanks.

neobis

dodger1 wrote: »

I'm staying from 18th March (Flamingo) but booked prior to 1st March, does that mean I won't have to pay the resort fee? Thanks.

If you booked before the 1st March then you will not pay the resort fee.

vegasvisitor

downhillfast wrote: »

I'm going to Vegas for the first time in August and both me and my partner are veggie... can you suggest any places to eat that cater well for veggies???

:beer:

It all depends how strict a veggie you are really. I avoid things like Parmesan, gelatine, red food colouring if it's cochineal (known as red 40 in the US), oyster sauce etc. So, although I've probably accidentally eaten some meat products abroad (or when out at home), I'm pretty careful. I do eat mozzarella though, so I'll take pizza but only if it doesn't have parmesan.

Buffets are pretty good. I usually get a big salad first. My next plate will usually be some pasta, mash, noodles (if I've checked they don't have oyster sauce), veg (at good buffets there is some nicely prepared veg like tenderstem brocolli etc). If I'm still hungry I'll go back and get some more of what I liked. And a pudding - like brownie, chocolate cake or ice cream, but not cheesecake.

There are some other places, there's some Indian restaurants but I haven't tried any of those. Ordinary restaurants will be a bit tricky, for example Mon Ami Gabi, which looks lovely but they just don't serve anything I'd like. There's some really good italian places, like Il Fornaio In NYNY. The Italian in Tropicana however uses chicken stock in all of their tomato sauce so they don't even have vegetarian pizza!! At foodcourts you'll get veggie stuff. My husband loves a place called Fuddruckers - it's a burger bar, but he really likes their veggie burger. It's at The Orleans. Grand Luxe Cafe, and California Pizza Kitchen are also good for veggie options. Fine dining probably won't be an option, we really enjoy the Bellagio or Wynn Buffet (late afternooon on brunch or late lunch prices). We find it quite good value because we just have something for breakfast, then a buffet at 3ish, take our time and eat till 4pm or so and we don't need anything else that day.

If you have any specific types of things you're looking for in terms of type of cuisine let me know and I'll see what I can think of.

dodger1

dodger1 wrote: »

I'm staying from 18th March (Flamingo) but booked prior to 1st March, does that mean I won't have to pay the resort fee? Thanks.

neobis wrote: »

If you booked before the 1st March then you will not pay the resort fee.

Thanks for that

ratkarth

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/10/being-muslim-in-las-vegas

interesting article

Winter_Jasmine

Hi All It's getting close to seat booking time for us - woohoo! Does anyone happen to know what time Virgin generally release the seats when we get to 90 days before? Thanks

ferf1223

it's been different for us different times...sometimes if we log in 90 days before, at about or near the flight time the seat map comes up but nothing we do will let us actually select seats, it just gives an error...then the next day it works fine.

Maybe we just cannot count 90 days?